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I was watering my yard today. After dragging the watering hoses around to place in the configuration that I figured worked, I unpinched the hose and let the water go. I realized I had cornered myself and had to come up with a plan to get out and keep my hairdo from getting wet. I had to either repinch the hose to stop the water or make a run for it through the water flow. I watched the water flowing back, and forth, and back, and forth. It reminded me of something ...
About 7 years ago I remember hearing a story about a group of about 12 firefighters that had been trapped on a mountainside by fast moving flames. A wall of flames was closing in on them. The leader told the rest of the men that if they ran into the wall of flames they would have the best chance of surviving than if they continued to run from the flames. The men, against the more experienced leader's wise direction, decided to run away from the flames, resulting in their deaths. "Fire can't burn where the fire's once been." They ran away.
The next day I heard a message about God's forgiveness. Once a person's been forgiven according to God's plan, there is no sin that will be held against. Those sins which we have committed, and will commit, have been removed as far as the east is from the west! There are no more sins to be sinned, none to keep us from spending eternity with God. Jesus Christ has already paid the price with his blood when he died on the cross and rose again. He can never die again. Those who are saved, because of what Jesus has done, can never die again again and will live with Him throughout eternity ~
Well, I looked at the flowing sprinkler water and, after a calculated decision, ran through the oncoming flow just getting a quick, refreshing splash.
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